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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2008
Akihiro Shimoda, Hitachinaka, JP;
Masahito Kakuno, Naka, JP;
Eiji Takaya, Mito, JP;
Junichi Oizumi, Kasumigaura, JP;
Akihiro Shimoda, Hitachinaka, JP;
Masahito Kakuno, Naka, JP;
Eiji Takaya, Mito, JP;
Junichi Oizumi, Kasumigaura, JP;
Hitachi-High Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sample dispensing apparatus and method for dispensing a sample such as blood and urine collected for inspection from one vessel to another are provided wherein the remaining quantity of a primary sample can be reduced without disturbing the primary sample. When clogging by a separating agent is detected during suction of a sample such as blood and urine collected for inspection, the sample dispensing apparatus performs raising of an aliquot head such that an opening at the free end of a nozzle tip does not come out of the sample liquid surface to dissolve clogging; sucking of the sample under the residual pressure; and additionally sucking of a fixed quantity of the sample to reduce the remaining quantity of the sample.